Sentence examples for been a direct competitor from inspiring English sources

Ms. Lebenthal, who said she was in her late 20s when she met Ms. Siebert, has recently been a "direct competitor" of Ms. Siebert's firm.

Gizmo5 (formerly called Gizmo Project) is a product of SIPphone, and has been a direct competitor of Skype in the VoIP industry for a number of years.

Siemens is a direct competitor of General Electric.

No one doubts that Amazon is a direct competitor.

Neither one, however, is a direct competitor to the Windows operating system.

The twin-engine, 300-to-350-seat plane is a direct competitor to Boeing's Dreamliner.

The latter, argued Lloyds, was a direct competitor in pensions with its own Scottish Widows operation.

Seeing as Silverlight was a direct competitor to Flash, it is suddenly left not looking too clever.

Ms. Povich, in fact, used to sell her lobsters to Mr. Sargent, even though he was a direct competitor.

Alkaline manganese batteries are a direct competitor to the standard carbon-zinc (Leclanchr) battery over which, in certain applications, they enjoy advantages in performance.

In late July, Facebook launched the beta version of Questions, a question-and-answer product that seems to be a direct competitor of Quora.